Quotes About Impact

No one could think that the destruction of war was an economic advantage who began by thinking first of all of the people whose property was destroyed. Those

If, therefore, the X industry is driven out of existence by a minimum wage law, then the workers previously employed in that industry will be forced to turn to alternative courses that seemed less attractive to them in the first place.

Just as there is no technical improvement that would not hurt someone, so there is no change in public taste or morals, even for the better, that would not hurt someone.

Therefore, for every public job created by the bridge project a private job has been destroyed somewhere else.

the larger part of the 50,000 English stocking knitters and their families did not fully emerge from the hunger and misery entailed by the introduction of the machine for the next forty years.

la inflación es un impuesto oculto que redistribuye la renta desde una parte de la sociedad hacia el Gobierno

las intervenciones de los gobiernos sólo tienen en cuenta las consecuencias que saltan a la vista, pero ignoran las que no se ven

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

When Milly smiled it was a public event—when she didn't it was a chapter of history. They

The flash of this knowledge — for it was knowledge in the midst of dread — produced in me the most extraordinary effect.

It has been everything for me to see you.

It was nothing, but it was somehow everything—it was that something for each of them had happened.

That's the least part of it—after it nothing will matter.

She had not yet divested herself of a young faith that each new acquaintance would exert some momentous influence on her life.

she had driven in by a single word a little golden nail, the sharp intention of which he signally felt. He

Advertising scientifically worked presented itself thus as the great new force. It really does the thing, you know.

I don't go off easily, but when I'm touched, it's for life. It's for life, Miss Archer, it's for life.

Could one in those days feel anything with force, whether for pleasure or for pain, without feeling it as an immense little act or event of life, and as therefore taking place on a scene and in circumstances scarce at all to be separated from its own sense and impact?—so that to recover it is to recover the whole medium, the material pressure of things, and find it most marked for preservation as an aspect, even, distinguishably, a composition.

Her laugh produced in him a momentary gloom.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.